Then it's clear who owns the trees
Common Property and Private Control in the Social Forest in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2281338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Goebel (0000-0001-8494-7661, Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 624-640 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00381.x |
| OpenAlex | W2131467651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 13 |
The woodlands in the Resettlement Areas of post-Independence Zimbabwe are under severe stress. The recent Land Tenure Commission (Rukuni 1994), identified the problem as the common property management system in the woodlands, and recommended a change to private tenure. The government of Zimbabwe has accepted this recommendation. This paper explores the common property woodland management system in a case study of a Model A resettlement scheme in order to consider this policy shift. Key institutional inadequacies and widespread 'poaching' of resources by neighboring communities emerge as the major micro causes for deforestation in common property areas. In addition, private control in some areas of the woodlands appears to have positive effects. While these dynamics at first appear to support the shift to private tenure, doubts emerge when the woodland management system is placed in historical cultural context, and the poaching problem is seen as an aspect of the macro context of overall inequity in land and resource distribution
Agriculture · Business · Common-pool resource · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics · Land tenure · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Private property · Property rights · Woodland · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Ecology · Land Rights and Reforms · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Zimbabwe's ‘Fast Track’ Land Reform
Participatory Planting and Management of Indigenous Trees
People, values, and woodlands
Is Zimbabwe the future of South Africa? The implications for land reform in Southern Africa
Is the Land the Economy and the Economy the Land? Primitive Accumulation in Zimbabwe
Gender, Environment and Development in Southern Africa
Legitimacy and the Use of Natural Resources in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Governing the Commons
Common Property Resource Theory and the Kuhl Irrigation Systems of Himachal Pradesh, India
The Tragedy of the Commons
Common property, equality, and development
Fuelwood, subsistence foraging, and the decline of common property
State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe
Community-based tenure reform in urban Africa
Technical development and peasant impoverishment
Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development
Process, Perception and Power
Tenures in Transition, Tenures in Conflict
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2010 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |